"Just because something is the best doesn't make it perfect. Glenn Beck wanted to expose the problems we do have, but he doesn't want an even worse version."

The main point here is how quickly his rhetoric changes from "a flawed health system" to "the world's best healthcare system" depending on the point he's trying to make, and I can see no other reason for the extent to which his opinion has changed other than it being based purely on politics.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying that you are against the proposed healthcare bill whilst also acknowledging the flaws of your current system (for which there are many), or even consistently saying that the current system is great. However, it's an entirely different thing to attempt to claim that the same system you berated previously is now, apparently, the world's best healthcare system because someone is attempting to reform it in a way that you don't approve of. If he had any kind of integrity, he would continue to acknowledge his previous opinion that the US healthcare system is flawed whilst also saying that he disagrees with the proposed reforms. That's not what he's doing though: He's allowing his politics to shape his opinions, rather than basing his politics on his existing opinions and morals. He has absolutely no integrity.

"So apparently you are saying [by making this debate] that anyone who has a change of heart, or changes their opinion is a hypocrite."

I was under no illusions that your stance on this matter would be to defend him to the rafters rather than admit that he has shown a complete lack of integrity. Let us first go over some of the quotes that were highlighted within this video. Take some time to go over them.

"It was one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life to receive healthcare in the United States. It's one of the hospitals where the president of GE is treated. If they don't care about GE, do you really think they care about schlubs that are just average working stiffs?"

"No matter how much the healthcare system would try to keep me down, I'm back. A personal voyage through the nightmare that is our healthcare system."

"We seem to be ... a society or system in healthcare that is just trying to shove the patients out that door as fast as they can. Getting well in this country can almost kill you."

Clearly, these are not the comments of a man who is on the fence about the level of care provided by the US healthcare system. These quotes came almost directly after having to go through the healthcare system himself and were based on his own experiences. He is clearly not a fan.

So, let's fast-foward eighteen months in time. Obama, a democrat, is now the president of the United States and wishes to reform the current healthcare system. Now let's see what Glenn Beck's opinion of the healthcare system in the United States is.

"You're about to lose the best healthcare system in the world."

"We are the only country in the world where leaders come from every other country to get health care when they can't get the right kind of health care in their own country." - Your Beck And Call, July 21, 2009.

And herein lies the hypocrisy. There would be absolutely no problem if he was honest and said that whilst he certainly (and obviously not from his previous statements) is not a fan of the current system, he also feels that the proposed system is wrong. This is called integrity. There is absolutely no way that a person can legitimately go from calling the healthcare system a nightmare to calling it the best in the world in eighteen months. Can you honestly tell me that this change in rhetoric is based purely on a change of heart? No, of course not. He's drawing a political line and doing whatever he can to keep America on the Republican side of that line, even if that requires him to lie about his own opinions on the American healthcare system.

He is lying about his own opinion in order to further his cause of opposition to the reform plans based on a purely political reason, and for this reason he is a hypocrite.

Ignoring the whole Glen Beck thing for a second, I find that your criticism of Jon Stewart is unfounded. What he does best is what he did in this last segment: show videos of peoples own words contradicting themselves (whether it be Jim Cramer or Bill O'Reilly)

I would agree that this happens the majority of time against conservatives or Fox news, but he also criticizes those on the other side as well, and the fact that most of his criticisms are of Fox has to do with the fact that Fox news anchors are the ones that most often contradict themselves in order to support the Republican party.

For someone who seems to be so concerned with the media, I'm surprised that you are critical of Stewart. He often shows how ridiculous the news coverage is on the 24 hour news networks (including CNN and MSNBC).

In no way does Jon Stewart ever talk out of his ass. His show is not just witty, but also insightful in ways that the media often fails to be. Take off the partisan glasses for 5 seconds and you would realize this Jake.

Glenn Beck didn't change his opinion, he merely decided to focus on a separate issue.

It seems that someone can't believe that something is both the best in the world and not perfect... according to people like Jon Stewart at least. I think O'Reilly would call that spin.

Interesting conspiracy.

If you truly believe in Conservative beliefs, you're dumb. If you're a smart Conservative, you're only doing it to gain power and money.

yes, because the other side can't POSSIBLY have a good reason for their opinion.

And any comparison like this to a liberal would just be spin and off topic, right?

My big problem with him is that unlike Keith and Rachel, he's succeeding at getting the ratings he wants. Which means people are buying what he says. Which means America is stupid.

This is troublesome in many ways.

The main problem here is that there really isn't anyone more important to go after these days. Democrats and Liberals hold all the power in America. Conservatives are the complete underdogs, and it actually sucks for Liberal thinkers who always used the idea that they were the one's fighting the power.

So instead, they will try to attack anyone who opposes those in power. It's funny, because the idea of ridicule for political opponents was created by an Extremist Liberal.